This is the PC and Printer business, the entire rest of the software directly related to PC and Printers was already divested into HPE (or was already spun into Agilent), even HPE kicked out a bunch of software over to Micro Focus and OpenText (who promptly bought Micro Focus.)
I'm sure they have tried to sell it and nobody was buying. They are also struggling to make money despite being the #2 PC vendor (globally.)
Unless you are an extremely profitable company that has reason to raise margin, there's NO reason for a company to shutdown something that's making money. That means ... it's not making money.